Cultivator.



N0. 637,747. Patented Nov. 2|, I899. C. M. DURNELL.

GULTIVATOR.

Application flleq Sept. 5, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CECIL M. DURNELL, OF INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO REUBEN D. WIRT AND CHARLES E. KNOX, OF SAME PLACE.

C U LT IVATO R SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,747, dated November 21, 1899. Application filed September 5 1899. Serial No. 729,496. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CECIL M. DURNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Independence, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Cultivator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of agricultural devices known as garden-cultivators; and its object is to produce a cultivator which can be readily manipulated by hand, but which can be quickly adapted for propulsion by a draft-animal.

The invention therefore consists in the provision of a novel clevis which may be quickly thrown into position for use with a draft-animal or may be thrown back upon the beam of the cultivator when it is desired to actuate the latter manually. It also comprehends a handle having a number of angular adjustments in order that it may be positioned in practical alinement with the standard when it is desired to employ the device as a handcultivator or may be thrown back into approximate alinement with the beam of the device when connected with a draft-animal.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device complete, showing the clevis thrown forward and the handle positioned to facilitate the manipulation of the cultivator when drawn by a horse; and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the clevis thrown back and the handle adjusted for manual operation.

Referring to the numerals of reference on the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates the beam of my cultivator, bifurcated, as indicated at 2, for the reception of the wheel 3, mounted upon the axle 4:, extending between the bifurcations. The ends of the sides of this bifurcation are provided with eyes 5, designed to pivotally retain the rear ends of a substantially U-shaped clevis 6, straddling the wheel and which when the device is not designed for employment in connection with a draft-animal may be thrown back to the position indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The numeral 7 indicates the standard upon which is mounted the share 8, and 9 indicates what may be termed a handle-frame, comprising a pair of upwardly and rearwardly extending segmental plates 10, mounted at the rear end of the beam and connected at their lower ends by a pivot-bolt 11, upon which the changing the inclination of the handle to accommodate the device, as heretofore stated, for use as a hand or horse cultivator.

What I claim is- 1. In acultivator, the combination with a bifurcated beam, a wheel mounted therein, and a clevis supported thereby and adapted to be thrown back upon the beam, of a handle-frame at the rear end of the beam comprising a pair of parallel segmental plates provided with corresponding series of openings and connected by a pivot-bolt, an adjustable handle mounted upon the bolt, and a pin extending through corresponding openings in the plates and the handle and designed to fix the latter in its adjusted positions.

2. In a cultivator, the combination with a beam, a wheel mounted thereon, and a share carried by the beam, of a pair of upwardly and rearwardly inclined plates, provided with an arcuate series of perforations, a handle located between the plates and pivoted at its lower end, and a fastening extending transversely through the handle, and for engagement with any of the corresponding perforations in the plates.

3. In a cultivator, a beam having a front longitudinal bifurcation, a wheel mounted in said bifurcation, a standard pendent from the rear end of the beam, a share carried by the standard, upwardly and rearwardly extending substantially parallel plates at the rear 

